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change in which we reduce our deficit, and we can streamline agencies. we can get rid of programs that are not working, but if we are serious, we have to ask wealthy americans to go back to the tax rates they paid when bill clinton was in office. [applause] of budget is all about priorities. it is about what values do we care about. i am not going to turn medicare into a voucher to pay taxes. i am not going to allow this nation to be plunged into another battle over health-care reform and take millions of americans of health care and weaken the reforms we put in place, including making sure young people can stay on their parents' plan just so insurance companies can jump back into the driver's seat. by the way, i am not going to allow politicians in washington to control health-care choices women should make it by themselves. i am not going to do that. we are not going to go backwards. we are going to go for words. -- forwards. [applause] colorado, we know what change is. we know what the future requires. we do not need a big government agenda or a small
change in which we reduce our deficit, and we can streamline agencies. we can get rid of programs that are not working, but if we are serious, we have to ask wealthy americans to go back to the tax rates they paid when bill clinton was in office. [applause] of budget is all about priorities. it is about what values do we care about. i am not going to turn medicare into a voucher to pay taxes. i am not going to allow this nation to be plunged into another battle over health-care reform and take...
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then i gave the four years of declining deficits and four years of surpluses. [applause] they got back in and they got into debt again. this should explain something to you. obama's plan brings the debt down and is based on our arithmetic. what is romney's plan? another big tax cuts for upper income people. and gives the highest income people 60% of the tax cuts. and then to cut education and investment in areas that will create jobs, cut them a lot. repeal the student loan law making it more expensive and harder to repay. keeping us down there in rankings of college graduates. do not produce a budget. you want to spend 2.4 trillion dollars more. you want to cut taxes more than he wants to cut taxes. you have only identified $1 trillion of tax deductions on companies he want to repeal. that is president obama's ideal. that leaves $6.50 trillion. how will you fill the hole? you wanted to reduce the long- term debt. how will the do that? see me about that after the election. [laughter] he has no budget. i want to vote for the president who has a budget, who has a
then i gave the four years of declining deficits and four years of surpluses. [applause] they got back in and they got into debt again. this should explain something to you. obama's plan brings the debt down and is based on our arithmetic. what is romney's plan? another big tax cuts for upper income people. and gives the highest income people 60% of the tax cuts. and then to cut education and investment in areas that will create jobs, cut them a lot. repeal the student loan law making it more...
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fallen incomes, record deficits, and an economic crisis we're still cleaning up after. so we know what works. we know what doesn't. now, governor romney, he's a very talented salesman. and, in this campaign, he's been working overtime to try to repackage the old, bad ideas that didn't work and try to sell them to you as new ideas. he's trying to say that they're changed. but here's the things. iowa, we know what change looks like. [ cheers and applause ] >> and what he's selling is not change. giving more power to the biggest banks? that's not change. another $5 trillion tax cut that favors the wealthy? not change. refusing to answer questions about the details of your policy until after the election? that's definitely not changing. politicians do that all of the time. ruling out compromise, pledging the rubber stamp, the tea party agenda in congress? that's not change. that's what we need to change. that's why i'm running for a second term. changing the facts when they're inconvenient to your campaign, that is definitely not change. so what he's selling, we tried it. i
fallen incomes, record deficits, and an economic crisis we're still cleaning up after. so we know what works. we know what doesn't. now, governor romney, he's a very talented salesman. and, in this campaign, he's been working overtime to try to repackage the old, bad ideas that didn't work and try to sell them to you as new ideas. he's trying to say that they're changed. but here's the things. iowa, we know what change looks like. [ cheers and applause ] >> and what he's selling is not...
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social security has not been a drain on the deficits, but there is a lot of misinformation about it. a lot of proposals floating around about privatizing so that people, especially younger people, into the market instead of having a government social safety net. what about social security that covers not only the elderly, but also those with dependent children can also security as well? putting money into private accounts to be invested by people, that is not going to be helpful to the vast majority of people. knowing where people stand on social security is very important. i want to raise an issue related to the courts. lilly ledbetter was such an explicit example of how courts can matter. and there are projections. it is hard to know what the tenure will be of the nine justices there are on the court right now. many predict that over time and in the next several years, there'll be one, two, or perhaps more vacancies on the supreme court. every vacancy makes a difference, especially given so many 5-4 decisions. who is in the senate confirming justices to the supreme court, let alone
social security has not been a drain on the deficits, but there is a lot of misinformation about it. a lot of proposals floating around about privatizing so that people, especially younger people, into the market instead of having a government social safety net. what about social security that covers not only the elderly, but also those with dependent children can also security as well? putting money into private accounts to be invested by people, that is not going to be helpful to the vast...
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[indiscernible] >> a $1 million deficit in this country. congressmen, governor romney said among the things he would target would be the corporation for public broadcasting and big bird. that got a lot of attention. that is a small fraction of the federal budget. give me some big ticket items you would cut. >> the big ticket items are what we call this pile of mandatory spending. you basically break the federal budget into defense, non- defense spending, and mandatory spending. when it comes to non-defense discretionary spending, what we have tried to do is reverse the direction president obama has been going in which they increase that by 20%. the specifics are to reform these entitlement programs. >> such as? >> medicare and social security so they are around. the biggest fastgrowing piece of the federal budget by far is the health care costs for our aging population. i voted to cut defense, part of the rhine budget is to cut defense. everything needs to be cut. i have said publicly. >> what are you referring to? >> we have bases do not n
[indiscernible] >> a $1 million deficit in this country. congressmen, governor romney said among the things he would target would be the corporation for public broadcasting and big bird. that got a lot of attention. that is a small fraction of the federal budget. give me some big ticket items you would cut. >> the big ticket items are what we call this pile of mandatory spending. you basically break the federal budget into defense, non- defense spending, and mandatory spending. when...
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we have record debts and deficits that have to be dealt with. the economy is weak. it needs to be strengthened by pro-growth policies. everybody acknowledges that. i'm hopeful that those are just political comments made in the heat of the campaign and that once this election is over, i believe mitt romney is going to win ohio and, therefore, i think is likely to be our next president. >> it's dangerous for me -- it's dangerous for me to ask a senator for a one-word answer, but if i could, is there a way for governor romney to win this election without winning ohio? >> probably, but i wouldn't want to risk it. no republican ever has, and i think we're going to win ohio. i really do. >> all right. senator rob portman, thank you so much for joining us this morning. happy trails. >> thank you, candy. also to you. >>> when we return president obama's closing message. trust the one you're with. >> you want to know that your president means what he says and says what he means. or that printing in color had to cost a fortune. nobody said an all-in-one had to be bulky. or th
we have record debts and deficits that have to be dealt with. the economy is weak. it needs to be strengthened by pro-growth policies. everybody acknowledges that. i'm hopeful that those are just political comments made in the heat of the campaign and that once this election is over, i believe mitt romney is going to win ohio and, therefore, i think is likely to be our next president. >> it's dangerous for me -- it's dangerous for me to ask a senator for a one-word answer, but if i could,...
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and then i gave you four years of declining deficits and four years of surpluses. and then they got back in with the same old theory that governor romney was advancing and they doubled the debt again. so this should explain something to you. obama's plan brings the debt down and it's based on arithmetic. what is romney's plan? another big tax cut for upper income people. give the highest of us, highest income people 60% of the tax cut. and then cut the investment in all of these 21st century jobs, repeal the student loan law, making the loans more expensive and harder to repay and keeping us down there in the rankings of college graduates. and don't produce a budget. you say, well, governor, you want to spend $2.5 trillion more than the president wants to spend. you want to cut taxes $5 trillion more than he wants to cut taxes. and you've only identified about a trillion dollars worth of tax deductions on companies that you want to repeal to lower the corporate income tax. that's president obama's idea. but that leaves $6.5 trillion. even if you fill it, you want t
and then i gave you four years of declining deficits and four years of surpluses. and then they got back in with the same old theory that governor romney was advancing and they doubled the debt again. so this should explain something to you. obama's plan brings the debt down and it's based on arithmetic. what is romney's plan? another big tax cut for upper income people. give the highest of us, highest income people 60% of the tax cut. and then cut the investment in all of these 21st century...
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the deficits doubled. it's the most partisan atmosphere, it's the most divisive climate in washington i've ever seen and the jobs are nowhere near they can be. this might be the best job president obama can do, but it's not the best we can do. and i have to tell you, when the president said the other day that people should vote out of revenge, this is not who we are. mitt romney and i are asking you to vote out of love of country, because that's how we get this country back on the right track. that's the big vision. look, if borrowing and taxing and spending and regulating and money printing works, we would have known by now. the obama economic agenda failed not because it was stopped, it failed because it was passed. let's remember he came in with his party in total control and thus came the war on coal, thus came the war on our energy jobs, then came the big new tax increase coming in january and all these new regulations and all this borrowing. when we look our children in the eyes, you saw ours, they'r
the deficits doubled. it's the most partisan atmosphere, it's the most divisive climate in washington i've ever seen and the jobs are nowhere near they can be. this might be the best job president obama can do, but it's not the best we can do. and i have to tell you, when the president said the other day that people should vote out of revenge, this is not who we are. mitt romney and i are asking you to vote out of love of country, because that's how we get this country back on the right track....
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their strategy ends up shooting the deficit up. so we know what the right choice is, but let's face it, governor romney, ee a very talented salesman. in this campaign, he's tried as hard as he can to repackage these same policies and offer them up as change. but we know what change looks like. and what the governor is offering ain't it. giving more power back to the biggest bank, that's not change. another $5 trillion tax cut in favor of the wealthy, that's not change. refusing to answer questions about the details of your policies until after the election, that's not change. we've seen that before. right inspect we've seen that before. ruling out compromise by pledging the rubber samp to the tea party's agenda in congress, that's not change. >> no. >> and by the way, when you try to change the facts, just because they're inconvenient to your campaign, that's definitely not change. you know, trying to massage the facts, that's -- that's not change, that's just -- look, you know, we have been seeing this. how the governor romney and
their strategy ends up shooting the deficit up. so we know what the right choice is, but let's face it, governor romney, ee a very talented salesman. in this campaign, he's tried as hard as he can to repackage these same policies and offer them up as change. but we know what change looks like. and what the governor is offering ain't it. giving more power back to the biggest bank, that's not change. another $5 trillion tax cut in favor of the wealthy, that's not change. refusing to answer...
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the real deficit river is healthcare. obamacare i totally solve this problem how the projects ago and had the public learns from them and approves them. nobody can map it out perfectly. most say the mean driver of deficits is health care. we are on the path to reform in that. there are plans on the table that would it presumably get the debt ratio done to a time, not in an abrupt way the still. >> it is a shame we still did not have the conservatives hair. i will not defended towards the of the bush policy deficit spending of their running out of the debt. the debt is what is -- the debt is what matters. we have to accept these facts. the issue is, how do we stop that? it is not going to be done through a combination of tax increases and a reduction in spending. they are actually in reductions to in the rate of new spending. four of the picking we do on greece and italy and spain, they have actually spent a little less the year over year and they have the year before. they are steps in the right direction. we will only ge
the real deficit river is healthcare. obamacare i totally solve this problem how the projects ago and had the public learns from them and approves them. nobody can map it out perfectly. most say the mean driver of deficits is health care. we are on the path to reform in that. there are plans on the table that would it presumably get the debt ratio done to a time, not in an abrupt way the still. >> it is a shame we still did not have the conservatives hair. i will not defended towards the...
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the debt, deficit, jobs, the economy, health care, energy. the problem is that we can't reach those issues if the congress, itself, does not work. that's why olympia snowe left. she didn't leave because she was tired of congress or wanted to spend time with family, but left because she said the place didn't function, couldn't get it done, and she was utterly frustrated. we have to try to do something different in order to respond to that challenge, and that's why i'm running for the united states senate as an independent. this makes a difference. this is about solving the problems that the nation faces, and, for example, there's a bill before the senate in september that would have benefited veterans across the country. it was filibusters because the party in the senate that filibustered didn't want the president to have a victory before the election. that's a terrible way to make decisions. the concern should have been for the veterans, not for the politics. >> moderator: governor king, thank you. secretary charlie summers. summers: thank yo
the debt, deficit, jobs, the economy, health care, energy. the problem is that we can't reach those issues if the congress, itself, does not work. that's why olympia snowe left. she didn't leave because she was tired of congress or wanted to spend time with family, but left because she said the place didn't function, couldn't get it done, and she was utterly frustrated. we have to try to do something different in order to respond to that challenge, and that's why i'm running for the united...
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we have to reduce our deficit -- deficit. we have to do it and a balanced way. i have $1 trillion of spending -- i caught $1 trillion of spending. once you get in office like it does noteney said, matter. we need to ask the wealthiest americans to go back to the tax rates they pay when president clinton was in office. the reason is that budget is about choices, priorities. as long as i am president, i will not turn medicare into a voucher to pay for another millionaire tax cut. so, virginia, we know what changes. we know what the future requires. we know also that it will not be easy. back in 2008 i talked about this. i warned some of the. maybe you were not believing me. i said change, real change is not just about changing presidents or changing parties. it is about changing our policy is. i ran because the voice of the american people, your voice, had been shut out of our democracy by lobbyists and special interests and politicians who are willing to say and do anything to keep things the way they are. the protectors, the guardians of the status quo. and that
we have to reduce our deficit -- deficit. we have to do it and a balanced way. i have $1 trillion of spending -- i caught $1 trillion of spending. once you get in office like it does noteney said, matter. we need to ask the wealthiest americans to go back to the tax rates they pay when president clinton was in office. the reason is that budget is about choices, priorities. as long as i am president, i will not turn medicare into a voucher to pay for another millionaire tax cut. so, virginia, we...
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the biggest issue that faces our country is the debt and deficit. we are going to have to ask some tough questions, and we cannot be playing politics. we have to have are robust plan. i would say around 4 trillion dollars closer to five trillion dollars, and there is a lot of work being done on this. i hope during a lame-duck we get a great start on it, because it is a huge issue for jobs. it is a huge issue for this country. ireland, greece, these are canaries in a mine shaft, and we need to move forward with a good policy that will impact a whole country and do it in a responsible way to move our economy forward, and that is the number one issue we need to work on to move our country forward. >> i thank you for the question. what i introduced was a balanced budget requirement for the federal government, but the first piece of legislation i will sponsor was to repeal obamacare. we need to put that money back into medicare. we cannot afford that. i would be proud to carry the legislation as i was proud to carry the legislation to fund obamacare, i w
the biggest issue that faces our country is the debt and deficit. we are going to have to ask some tough questions, and we cannot be playing politics. we have to have are robust plan. i would say around 4 trillion dollars closer to five trillion dollars, and there is a lot of work being done on this. i hope during a lame-duck we get a great start on it, because it is a huge issue for jobs. it is a huge issue for this country. ireland, greece, these are canaries in a mine shaft, and we need to...
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we got falling incomes and record deficits. you have ideas that we tried and did not work, and ideas that we tried it did work. you would think there would be a pretty clear choice, but mitt romney is a very talented salesman. so in this campaign, he has tried as hard as he can to repackage these old ideas that did not work, and pretend there are new ideas and offering them up as a change. but here is the thing, florida, we know what changed looks like. what mitt romney is offering is not it. giving more power back to the biggest bang -- biggest banks is not change. another five trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy is not change. refusing to answer questions about the details of your policy is definitely not change. politicians have been during that long time. ruling out compromise by pledging to reverse the of the agenda in congress is not changed. changing the fax when they are inconvenient to your campaign, that certainly is not change. here is the thing, when you make this choice, who do trust? he did not know what crisis t
we got falling incomes and record deficits. you have ideas that we tried and did not work, and ideas that we tried it did work. you would think there would be a pretty clear choice, but mitt romney is a very talented salesman. so in this campaign, he has tried as hard as he can to repackage these old ideas that did not work, and pretend there are new ideas and offering them up as a change. but here is the thing, florida, we know what changed looks like. what mitt romney is offering is not it....
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we went from surplus to a deficit in 2001. >> how? would you like to >> she has misstated just about everything. first, the debt has gone up from $6 trillion to $16 trillion when she has been in office. patton dollar trillion increased. -- that is a $10 trillion increase. i never put in a tax bill to give anybody a tax break of anything right now. my tax bill that i put out is basically if you want all the itemized deductions and exemptions, fine. if you want a flat tax without a skimming or scanning the system, you can do it in the halftime between the green bay packers and the chicago bears. you go in and put down the gross revenue, but your tax in promise ended in, and still have enough time to go to the refrigerator and get a beer and come back and watched the second half. so you have that opportunity. the third thing, she forgets i was running the department of help. i was not in the department of revenue. i was not in passing tax things. she was in the government. she has a tremendous idea that all these happened without hurting
we went from surplus to a deficit in 2001. >> how? would you like to >> she has misstated just about everything. first, the debt has gone up from $6 trillion to $16 trillion when she has been in office. patton dollar trillion increased. -- that is a $10 trillion increase. i never put in a tax bill to give anybody a tax break of anything right now. my tax bill that i put out is basically if you want all the itemized deductions and exemptions, fine. if you want a flat tax without a...
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>> i think was talking about the deficit. it's one million less than it was. but he couldn't have flished that. in terms of jobs again. megyn: i'm asking for a broader view. should he never have made those promises? can you change washington? >> no, no. if i can respond some to some of the things mike has said. it's even at 7.9%. the jobs picture is more than they thought it would be. august and september had more jobs than previously thought. we find out promised he has made. he said he would reform healthcare and end the war in iraq and get out of afghanistan. he has done so many of the things he said he would do. any second-term president is not going to be as swooned over as a first term. that's just the what it is for every president. >> his narcissistic personality, the failed promises. >> he created 4 million jobs. almost 200,000 a month being created. megyn: it won't be solved today but it will be solved tuesday one way or another. the american people will have the final say. thank you both so much. i thought it was an interesting piece. good debate. l
>> i think was talking about the deficit. it's one million less than it was. but he couldn't have flished that. in terms of jobs again. megyn: i'm asking for a broader view. should he never have made those promises? can you change washington? >> no, no. if i can respond some to some of the things mike has said. it's even at 7.9%. the jobs picture is more than they thought it would be. august and september had more jobs than previously thought. we find out promised he has made. he...
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then i gave the four years of declining deficits and four years of surpluses. they got back in and they got into debt again. this should explain something to you. obama's plan brings the debt down and is based on our arithmetic. what is romney's plan? another big tax cuts for upper income people. and gives the highest income people 60% of the tax cuts. and then to cut education and investment in areas that will create jobs, cut them a lot. repeal the student loan law making it more expensive and harder to repay. keeping us down there in rankings of college graduates. do not produce a budget. you want to spend 2.4 trillion dollars more. you want to cut taxes more than he wants to cut taxes. you have only identified $1 trillion of tax deductions on companies he want to repeal. that is president obama's ideal. that leaves $6.50 trillion. how will you fill the hole? you wanted to reduce the long- term debt. how will the do that? see me about that after the election. he has no budget. i want to vote for the president who has a budget, who has a plan that will produc
then i gave the four years of declining deficits and four years of surpluses. they got back in and they got into debt again. this should explain something to you. obama's plan brings the debt down and is based on our arithmetic. what is romney's plan? another big tax cuts for upper income people. and gives the highest income people 60% of the tax cuts. and then to cut education and investment in areas that will create jobs, cut them a lot. repeal the student loan law making it more expensive...
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house was $600 billion in deficit. i have the courage to submit a balanced budget if i'm elected president right after i'm inaugurated. secondly, i am for jobs and america for american citizens first, and the only candidate that has called for a near complete moritorium on green card admissions to the united states until unemployment is under 5%. it makes no sense to bring in so many foreign workers when our unemployment is so high in this country. [applause] secondly, third, we -- >> running low on time. >> we need the super p.a.c.sit n and political action committees, that would be one of the things to open up our country for greater process and greater voice by the people, and finally, we need term limits. it is time to do the best job in congress instead of the election and fund raiser. >> now an opening statement from governor johnson. >> the country is in really deep trouble. we should not bomb iran. [applause] we should end the war in afghanistan tomorrow. bring the troops home tomorrow. [cheers and applause] ma
house was $600 billion in deficit. i have the courage to submit a balanced budget if i'm elected president right after i'm inaugurated. secondly, i am for jobs and america for american citizens first, and the only candidate that has called for a near complete moritorium on green card admissions to the united states until unemployment is under 5%. it makes no sense to bring in so many foreign workers when our unemployment is so high in this country. [applause] secondly, third, we -- >>...
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but the deficit situation has now grown so bad that there's just no appetite for further borrowing at this time. >> maya macguineas runs the committee for a responsible federal budget, a bipartisan group that lobbies congress. she says uncertainty about how the government will deal with the deficit and the huge national debt is inhibiting employers from hiring. >> in the business world, there's over $2 trillion of cash sitting on the sidelines that could be used to grow the economy, make investments and create jobs. but it's not going to be invested until people know what to expect going forward in the economy. and that's why you need some kind of stability that would come from a big debt deal to help bring that about. >> in fact, unless there is a grand bargain on taxes and government spending by the end of the year, by some estimates, another 2 million people could lose their jobs beginning early next year. that's when the nation would drive off the so-called fiscal cliff. if that were to happen tax rates would go up for nearly every single income group. taxes on investment income w
but the deficit situation has now grown so bad that there's just no appetite for further borrowing at this time. >> maya macguineas runs the committee for a responsible federal budget, a bipartisan group that lobbies congress. she says uncertainty about how the government will deal with the deficit and the huge national debt is inhibiting employers from hiring. >> in the business world, there's over $2 trillion of cash sitting on the sidelines that could be used to grow the economy,...
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came into office, he asked the wealthiest americans to pay a little bit more so we could reduce our deficit and still invest in the skills and ideas of our people. and you know what? at the time, the republicans in congress and a senate candidate by the name of mitt romney, i don't want you to boo, i want you to vote. i want you to vote. but a republican candidate by the name of mitt romney said, bill clinton's plans would hurt the economy and kill jobs. turns out his math was just as bad then as it is now. because by the end of president clinton's second term, america created 23 million new jobs and incomes were up and poverty was down and our deficit had turned into a surplus. so florida, we know that our ideas work. we also know that their ideas don't. because we tried their ideas too. we trieded giving big tax cuts to the wealthiest americans. we tried giving insurance companies and oil companies and wall street free reign to do whatever they wanted and what did we get? falling interest rates and the slowest growth in half a century and a financial crisis that we have been cleaning up a
came into office, he asked the wealthiest americans to pay a little bit more so we could reduce our deficit and still invest in the skills and ideas of our people. and you know what? at the time, the republicans in congress and a senate candidate by the name of mitt romney, i don't want you to boo, i want you to vote. i want you to vote. but a republican candidate by the name of mitt romney said, bill clinton's plans would hurt the economy and kill jobs. turns out his math was just as bad then...
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the deficit is now $1 trillion this year. he has added 50% to our debt to the point that it has gone to $16 trillion. does that sound like it is working to you? and when he pushed to the health care bill through, he said, if you pass this legislation, we will reduce health-care costs. the reduction will be about $2,500. it actually has increased costs by about $2,500. does this sound like it is working? we are in the right place. and then the stimulus package, when he said i want a trillion dollars of your money, he took our money plus the bar a bunch from china. trillionet's put a dollars and see what happens. he says today unemployment would be 15% lower than it is. that is 9 million jobs short. does this sound like it's working? it is not. what is even more discouraging is looking at what he wants to do over the next four years. it is more of the same. there are some exceptions. he has protected and our jobs and ensure we have the military second to none to keep the peace. i get to work with him. host: for the past week an
the deficit is now $1 trillion this year. he has added 50% to our debt to the point that it has gone to $16 trillion. does that sound like it is working to you? and when he pushed to the health care bill through, he said, if you pass this legislation, we will reduce health-care costs. the reduction will be about $2,500. it actually has increased costs by about $2,500. does this sound like it is working? we are in the right place. and then the stimulus package, when he said i want a trillion...
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by the time he left, we had massive deficits. he voted to increase the debt by $16,000 every second he was in the senate. he expanded medicare, which was good, but he did not pay for it. he was part of a senate and a house that declared two wars but did not pay for the wars and instead put them on the credit card for our kids to pay. he made a massive tax cuts to health -- to help the wealthy. he did not pay for them. we went from surplus to deficit. he voted four times to raise his own pay. he voted four times to raise the debt with it, he voted for 52,000 earmarks that totaled $121 billion. even george had to admit, spending was a problem when i was in the senate. we do not need to go back to it. he is a harsh partisan. he attacked hillary clinton as someone who does not share our values. attacking john kerry. george would not joined a gang to bring senators together. he said, we do not need to compromise. >> your rebuttal? >> john warner and i worked as a team for virginia. i am proud of john warner as a friend and ally. as fa
by the time he left, we had massive deficits. he voted to increase the debt by $16,000 every second he was in the senate. he expanded medicare, which was good, but he did not pay for it. he was part of a senate and a house that declared two wars but did not pay for the wars and instead put them on the credit card for our kids to pay. he made a massive tax cuts to health -- to help the wealthy. he did not pay for them. we went from surplus to deficit. he voted four times to raise his own pay. he...
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now, change in the future where we reduce our deficit that's balanced and responsible. i signed a trillion dollars worth of spending cuts. i intend to do more. i'll work with both parties to streamline agencies and get rid of programs that don't work. if we're serious about the deficit, we've also got to ask the wealthiest americans to go back to tax rates they paid when bill clinton was in office because, as long as i'm president, i will never turn medicare into a voucher to pay for another millionaire's tax cuts. i will never allow the nation to be plunged into another battle over health care reform just so insurance companies can jump back into the driver's seat. and i will never allow politicians in washington to control health care choices that women should be making for themselves. so, wisconsin, we know what change is. we know what the future requires. we don't need a big government agenda or a small government agenda. we need a middle class agenda that rewards hard work and responsibility. we don't need a partisan agenda. we need a common sense agenda that says,
now, change in the future where we reduce our deficit that's balanced and responsible. i signed a trillion dollars worth of spending cuts. i intend to do more. i'll work with both parties to streamline agencies and get rid of programs that don't work. if we're serious about the deficit, we've also got to ask the wealthiest americans to go back to tax rates they paid when bill clinton was in office because, as long as i'm president, i will never turn medicare into a voucher to pay for another...
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we have a trade deficit with them of $300 billion a year. >> you can no more win a trade war than you can win an earthquake. everybody knows that. >> nobody will win in a trade war. but we've got to find some better way of balancing the trade. as pat says we have huge deficits in trade with china for decades and a good part of the reason is not because they have a very low wage cost including for a lot of american products but the fact is they keep their currency low to magnify their exports. >> the u.s. cannot win without china and china cannot win without the united states? >> true or false? >> no. >> true or false? >> i think the chinese leadership understand this is largely rhetoric. >> eleanor > issue three, pug t rules. >> throughout this week's presidential debate, there were flare ups. challenge mitt romney described what he see as how sitting president barack obama, during his four years, has conducted himself overseas. >> then the president began what i have called an apology tour of going to various nations in the middle east and criticizing america. i think they looked at
we have a trade deficit with them of $300 billion a year. >> you can no more win a trade war than you can win an earthquake. everybody knows that. >> nobody will win in a trade war. but we've got to find some better way of balancing the trade. as pat says we have huge deficits in trade with china for decades and a good part of the reason is not because they have a very low wage cost including for a lot of american products but the fact is they keep their currency low to magnify...
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he said he was going to cut the deficit in half. that has not happened. the good news that we have somebody who is running for president that has the know-how. he has the experience. he has got the experience, the record, and he knows how to work with democrats, republicans cannot independents alike to address the challenges we face as a country, and that is why we need mitt romney in washington to fix what is broken and bring back the american dream. i see a uaw member here economy. autos. talk what go said barack obama that said were a few wars. one was about the auto industry. he said, you want to take those companies to bankruptcy. i supported a rescue package for the autos, but what obama said was not true. it was barack obama who took gm and chrysler through bankruptcy, ok? >> right? second, it was mitt romney who absolutely did provide for loan guarantees to ensure the warranties were backed up. that is what every fact checker who has looked at what obama said said he was wrong, he was not telling the truth. now, this is what is most important to t
he said he was going to cut the deficit in half. that has not happened. the good news that we have somebody who is running for president that has the know-how. he has the experience. he has got the experience, the record, and he knows how to work with democrats, republicans cannot independents alike to address the challenges we face as a country, and that is why we need mitt romney in washington to fix what is broken and bring back the american dream. i see a uaw member here economy. autos....
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when i was mayor of new york city, i had a city that had a deficit of about $3 billion. we had 10.5% unemployment. we had 1.1 million people on welfare. we were coming to a -- what was described, one of the reasons i got elected. i got elected because the economy was horrible, had 2,000 murders in the two years before i ran for mayor so i got elected at the first republican in 25 years, first one to remain a republican in 50. [laughter] i got legislated with a very, very simple and direct campaign slogan. you can't do any worse. [laughter] tell me how i could make things worse? 3,000 murders? could unemployment go do 15%. maybe instead of 500,000 people moving out, 600,000 move out. give me a shot and let's see what can happen. my predecessor had done what a lot of people who should never be executives do. he appointed a commission to tell them how to straighten out of economy, but the commission was going to report after the election. the commission did report after the election. a month after while i was getting ready to get sworn in, and they presented 34 #e with thei
when i was mayor of new york city, i had a city that had a deficit of about $3 billion. we had 10.5% unemployment. we had 1.1 million people on welfare. we were coming to a -- what was described, one of the reasons i got elected. i got elected because the economy was horrible, had 2,000 murders in the two years before i ran for mayor so i got elected at the first republican in 25 years, first one to remain a republican in 50. [laughter] i got legislated with a very, very simple and direct...
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we have had trillion dollar deficits each year. remember when he said he would bring people together to solve the countries biggest problems? this is the third president i served with. it is the most partisan atmosphere i have ever seen. look, look at john kacek. i learned a lot from that man. i came as a young guy in congress under his leadership. following the same trail he blazed. here is a guy, who sees a problem and runs at the problem. that is what leadership is. we got big problems. we do not want a president blaming somebody else for four years. we do not want a president ducking the tough issues, demagoguing the other party. we want a president who will lead and fix this mess and solve our problems and get this country back on the right track. [applause] so it is not enough for us to complain about the broken promises or to simply highlight the fact that president obama cannot run on his record so he is trying to distort hours and distract people to win by default. this is why we are offering specific solutions, specific i
we have had trillion dollar deficits each year. remember when he said he would bring people together to solve the countries biggest problems? this is the third president i served with. it is the most partisan atmosphere i have ever seen. look, look at john kacek. i learned a lot from that man. i came as a young guy in congress under his leadership. following the same trail he blazed. here is a guy, who sees a problem and runs at the problem. that is what leadership is. we got big problems. we...
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heed cut the deficit in half, heed bring everybody together. the deficit has doubled. it's the most partisan time we've had and just look at the jobs that didn't occur. we got a new jobs report today. unemployment is higher than the day he took office. you got 23 million americans struggling for work today. 15% of our fellow citizens living in poverty today. that's the highest in a generation. all those jobs he said heed create if he borrowed a lot of money and gave it to these interest groups, it didn't material lies. we have a jobs crisis. wouldn't it be nice to actually have a job creator in the white house for a change? [applause] four years ago i want to read you a quote. if you don't have fresh ideas, use stale tactics to scare voters. if you don't have a record to run on then you paint your opponent someone should one from. you make a big election about small things. you know who that was four years ago. so you do know who that was four years ago. that's what president obama when he was candidate said four years ago and that's exactly what he has become. here's
heed cut the deficit in half, heed bring everybody together. the deficit has doubled. it's the most partisan time we've had and just look at the jobs that didn't occur. we got a new jobs report today. unemployment is higher than the day he took office. you got 23 million americans struggling for work today. 15% of our fellow citizens living in poverty today. that's the highest in a generation. all those jobs he said heed create if he borrowed a lot of money and gave it to these interest groups,...
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economist and a wonderful man, said that this is the year that we have to deal with the real budget deficit or the year that we have to ignore and get over the fact that we're ever going to do with the budget deficit. this is the moment. we have to do it. do it this time or we accept the fact we're going down a road of increasing debt. >> about the house? still republican? backthink, again, let's go to that first debate. obama stumbled, and caused a lot of democrats to have trouble as well. the race has shifted. >> republicans have done redistricting. democrats have steadily lost. i think it is miraculous that it took the house, and it is a steep climb after this redistricting. the status quo were to remain the same, it would have had the chance of picking up 10 seats that are now beyond their reach. >> we talked a lot about the first debate pits talk about foreign policy and the final presidential debate. >> both at home and abroad, he has proposed reckless policies and he has praised george bush as a good economic steward and dick cheney as someone with great judgment and wisdom. >> attac
economist and a wonderful man, said that this is the year that we have to deal with the real budget deficit or the year that we have to ignore and get over the fact that we're ever going to do with the budget deficit. this is the moment. we have to do it. do it this time or we accept the fact we're going down a road of increasing debt. >> about the house? still republican? backthink, again, let's go to that first debate. obama stumbled, and caused a lot of democrats to have trouble as...
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so we could reduce our deficit and invest in the skills and ideas of our people. and you know, at the time the republican congress and a senate candidate by the name of mitt romney vote -- they said that bill clinton's plan would hurt the economy and kill jobs. does that sound familiar? that's what they said. it turns out their math was just as bad back then as it is now. because -- because by the end of bill clinton's second term, america had created 23 million new jobs and a incomes were up and poverty was down, and our deficit had turned into a surplus. so wisconsin, we know what ideas work. we know our ideas work. and we know that their ideas don't work. we know it. and the reason we know it is we just tried it a few years ago. after bill clinton was out of office, they tried their ideas. we tried giving big tax cuts to the wealthiest americans. we tried giving insurance companies and wall street a free rein to do whatever they play. what we got is falling incomes, record deficits, slowest job growth in 50 years and an economic crisis that we're still cleaning
so we could reduce our deficit and invest in the skills and ideas of our people. and you know, at the time the republican congress and a senate candidate by the name of mitt romney vote -- they said that bill clinton's plan would hurt the economy and kill jobs. does that sound familiar? that's what they said. it turns out their math was just as bad back then as it is now. because -- because by the end of bill clinton's second term, america had created 23 million new jobs and a incomes were up...
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we've got to reduce our deficit. i've got a trillion dollars worth of spending and we can do more. we're not just using it in tv ads and once you get in office, like dick cheney said, it doesn't matter. and then we have to ask the wealthiest americans to go back to the tax rates that they paid when president clinton was in office. and the reason is because budgets are about choices. as long as i'm president, i'm not going to turn in another voucher just to pay for another millionaire's tax cut. so, virginia, we know what change is. we know what the future requires. we know, also, that it won't be easy. i warned some of you. maybe you weren't believing me. i said real change isn't just about changing presidents or changing parties. it's about changing our politics. we've been shut out of democracy for too long. the protectors, the guardians of the status quo. and that status quo in washington has fought us every step of the way in the last four years. they spent millions of dollars from preventing us from reforming health care and wall street. they have had a strategy and gridlock i
we've got to reduce our deficit. i've got a trillion dollars worth of spending and we can do more. we're not just using it in tv ads and once you get in office, like dick cheney said, it doesn't matter. and then we have to ask the wealthiest americans to go back to the tax rates that they paid when president clinton was in office. and the reason is because budgets are about choices. as long as i'm president, i'm not going to turn in another voucher just to pay for another millionaire's tax cut....
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we have seen president obama adapt the clinton economic plan, the balanced approach in terms of deficits. and today he employed the anthem of bill clinton, playing at the end of the clinton obama rally in new hampshire "don't stop thinking about tomorrow." a song we heard in 1992 and 1996. i heard more veteran reporters saying they had not heard that song in 10 or 12 years and they are bringing it back. you can see president obama trying to ride president clinton's coat tails. remarkable when you consider four years ago during the theater of primary, clinton and obama in 2008, bill clinton said the obama campaign was the biggest fairytale they had seen and they are now locked together and let me give you an idea of how much bill clinton is doing, he has done two dozen campaign events for president obama, and now comes word that on monday, tomorrow, in the final hours, former president clinton will be in pennsylvania for not one, but four events throughout the state, pittsburgh, philadelphia, scranton. recently, the obama camp has been saying it is desperation on the report of mitt romney
we have seen president obama adapt the clinton economic plan, the balanced approach in terms of deficits. and today he employed the anthem of bill clinton, playing at the end of the clinton obama rally in new hampshire "don't stop thinking about tomorrow." a song we heard in 1992 and 1996. i heard more veteran reporters saying they had not heard that song in 10 or 12 years and they are bringing it back. you can see president obama trying to ride president clinton's coat tails....
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deficits. debt. obama care. energy. all that just got wiped off the page for four or five days and that had the effect of getting everybody's mind off the election. that started over here in the last day or so. >> that is the funny thing about momentum. i'm sure you experience this, governor. one day you have it and the other day you don't but you can get it back. how lasting do you think the effect it on the romney campaign? >> nothing obama did broke romney's momentum. all the way through october obama would attack and attack and be very condescending. didn't help. in fact, it may have hurt him with women. but the blackout took all this off people's minds and now we are seeing who kind of gets the momentum back going. it is very, very close and the new york times i guess i shouldn't be surprised by what gets written in the "new york times" but almost every one of these battleground states the polling is within the margin of error. very few polls has obama got over 50% of the vote. normally a president in the last poll
deficits. debt. obama care. energy. all that just got wiped off the page for four or five days and that had the effect of getting everybody's mind off the election. that started over here in the last day or so. >> that is the funny thing about momentum. i'm sure you experience this, governor. one day you have it and the other day you don't but you can get it back. how lasting do you think the effect it on the romney campaign? >> nothing obama did broke romney's momentum. all the way...
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the fact that we will ever deal with the deficit. this is the moment. we have to do it is time we just accept that we are going down a road of increasing debt. >> what about the house? still republican? >> again, let's go back to that first debate. stumble cost a lot of democrats who have trouble as well, i don't think it looks as good for democrats in the house as it did that. >> republicans have done their redistricting. democrats has steadily lost -- i thought it was quite miraculous that they took the house. it is a very steep climb after this redistricting in which if the status quo were to remain the same, they would have a chance of picking up 10 seats that are now beyond their reach. >> let's talk about foreign policy in the final presidential debate. >> he has proposed reckless policies, he has prpraised george w. bush as a great economic steward and dick cheney as someone who showed great judgment. >> attacking me is not an agenda. >> there is a sample of the foreign policy debate. charles krauthammer is off this week, but
the fact that we will ever deal with the deficit. this is the moment. we have to do it is time we just accept that we are going down a road of increasing debt. >> what about the house? still republican? >> again, let's go back to that first debate. stumble cost a lot of democrats who have trouble as well, i don't think it looks as good for democrats in the house as it did that. >> republicans have done their redistricting. democrats has steadily lost -- i thought it was quite...